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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
James Wilson Nash, San Diego, CA (US);
Kalin Mitkov Atanassov, San Diego, CA (US);
Sergiu Radu Goma, San Diego, CA (US);
Narayana Karthik Sadanandam Ravirala, San Diego, CA (US);
Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana, San Diego, CA (US);
Karthikeyan Shanmugavadivelu, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods for providing seamless preview images for multi-camera devices having two or more asymmetric cameras. A multi-camera device may include two asymmetric cameras disposed to image a target scene. The multi-camera device further includes a processor coupled to a memory component and a display, the processor configured to retrieve an image generated by a first camera from the memory component, retrieve an image generated by a second camera from the memory component, receive input corresponding to a preview zoom level, retrieve spatial transform information and photometric transform information from memory, modify at least one image received from the first and second cameras by the spatial transform and the photometric transform, and provide on the display a preview image comprising at least a portion of the at least one modified image and a portion of either the first image or the second image based on the preview zoom level.